Current Situation Frequently Asked Questions Publications Other Information MSU CARES home page	Pesticides: Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Current Situation The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) was passed unanimously by Congress in 1996 replacing the Delaney Clause which stipulated a zero tolerance for potential carcinogens in processed food. The main focus of FQPA is to protect the public from pesticide residues in dietary and nondietary sources. The FQPA requires EPA to review all existing residue tolerances within 10 years in order to protect the public from harmful pesticide residues. It is projected that registrants and/or EPA will cancel the use of those pesticide active ingredients that pose a high risk to human health and/or the environment, as new tolerance risk criteria and aggregate and infant dietary risk standards have been established under FQPA. Potentially, this has a negative outlook for states like Mississippi whose producers use these pesticides to produce their crop. Registrants will have to decide which registrations they will retain in lieu of the new risk criteria as well as to decide which products will continue to provide economic profits for manufacturers. The loss of certain pesticide active ingredients, could mean that Mississippi's agricultural producers may not have adequate or effective control measures for some of our major cropping systems. EPA has divided the pesticides with tolerances and exemptions subject to the reassessment schedule into three groups with deadlines for the first group August 1999, the next group August 2002 and the final group August 2006. Return to top of page Frequently Asked Questions What safeguards were added to protect children? What pesticides will be reviewed first? What is the risk cup? What is aggregate exposure? What is an endocrine disrupter? What pesticides are known to have endocrine effects? Return to top of page Publications The Food Quality Protection Act Return to top of page Other FQPA Information Controversial Issues Crop Profiler EPA FQPA Discussion Group Mississippi's FQPA Pesticide Database New York's FQPA Data Base Introduction to FQPA Return to top of page
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